Fri Dec 16 2022

9 articles - From Friday Dec 09 2022 to Friday Dec 16 2022

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Guidelines

Guidelines and related publications, position statements, white papers, technical reviews, consensus statements, etc…


Meta-analysis

meta-analyses and systematic reviews


Original articles

RCT, clinical trials, retrospective studies, etc…

Am J Kidney Dis

Association of Retinal Age Gap and Risk of Kidney Failure: A UK Biobank Study.

Retinal age gap was significantly associated with incident ESKD and may be a promising non-invasive biomarker for of incident ESKD.

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Longitudinal Relationship Between Anemia and Statural Growth Impairment in Children and Adolescents With Nonglomerular CKD: Findings From the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Study.

Hemoglobin decline is associated with growth impairment over time in children with mild to moderate non-glomerular CKD, even before hemoglobin levels reach the cutoffs that are currently used to define anemia in this population.

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Nephrol Dial Transplant

Long-term peri-dialytic blood pressure changes are related to mortality.

Severe declines in pre-SBP and post-DBP in the preceding 6 months were independently related to mortality. Therefore, peri-dialytic BP-values should be interpreted in the context of their changes and not solely as an absolute value.

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Nephrosclerosis in young patients with malignant hypertension.

The histopathological hallmark of nephrosclerosis was found alone in only 52% of study patients, regardless of ethnicity. This suggests that kidney biopsy might be beneficial in young patients with MH.

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Prediction of all-cause mortality for chronic kidney disease patients using four models of machine learnings.

A Bayesian network was used to create a 7-variable prediction tool to predict the 2-year all-cause mortality in patients with stage 4-5 CKD. Prior to external validation, the proposed prediction tool can be used at for research purposes.

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Reviews&Editorials

Plenty of the editorials are available as full text through the publisher website using the provided link

Kidney Int

Glomerular diseases in pregnancy: pragmatic recommendations for clinical management.

An international working group undertook the review of available current literature and elicited expert opinions on glomerular diseases in pregnancy with the aim to provide pragmatic information for nephrologists according to the present state-of-the-art knowledge. This work also highlights areas of clinical uncertainty and emphasizes the need for further collaborative studies to improve maternal and foetal health.

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Nephrol Dial Transplant

Care about the flare: the importance of avoiding lupus nephritis recurrence.

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Miscellaneous

misc publications eg case reports, tools of the trade, images of the month, etc…

Kidney Int

A Polygenic Score for Reduced Kidney Function and Adverse Outcomes in a Chronic Kidney Disease Cohort.

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Nephrol Dial Transplant

Avacopan for ANCA-associated vasculitis - information for prescribers.

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Letters&Replies

Letters to the editors and authors’ replies